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Researchers
in the Complex Cognition Laboratory pursue
questions relating to
how inference, judgment, and memory processes interact with, and
sometimes adapt to the informational environment. Thus, the work can be
construed as an ecological approach to the study of cognition. Some,
though not all of the current work deals with a particular kind of
environmental context--the mathematical environment--that can
potentially constrain and guide all kinds of cognition.
Students
in the lab need not have an extensive background in math per
se (though such an orientation is a definite plus). Rather, students
need to be highly logical, well-motivated, and curious about potential
applications of broad ecological and evolutionary concepts to the
study of cognition (also see general
advice
for graduate students).
Current
projects include intuitive correlation detection, illusory correlation
(seeing correlations that aren't there), social simulation, and the
mathematical bases for the cognitive exaggeration of group differences.
Faculty
Graduate
Students
- Leisha Colyn
<leishaw@bgsu.edu>
- Justin Gilkey
<jgilkey@bgsu.edu>
- Beth Hartzler
<hbeth@bgsu.edu>
- Andrew
McCracken <amccrac@bgsu.edu>
Undergraduate
Students
- Jenn Diveto
<jdiveto@bgsu.edu>
- Billyanne Hall
<bmhall@bgsu.edu>
Current
Work
Note: The following
conference presentations and articles (pre-publication versions) are
downloadable via [THIS
LINK].
(h) Anderson, R.
B., Doherty, M. E., & Friedrich, J. (in press). Sample size and
correlational inference. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
(g) Doherty, M.
E., Anderson, R. B., Angott, A. M., & Klopfer, D. S. (2007).
The
perception of scatterplots. Perception
& Psychophysics.
(f) Anderson, R.
B., & Doherty, M. E. (2007). Sample size and the detection of
means: A
signal detection account. Memory &
Cognition, 69, 1261-1272.
(e)
Gilkey, J. M., Anderson,
R.
B., & Doherty, M. E. (2006). The
effects of sample size on different measures of subjective correlation.
Poster
presented at the Annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and
Decision
Making.
(d)
Kelley, A. M., Anderson, R.
B., & Doherty, M. E. (2006). Effects of correlational
strength and correlational indeterminacy on judgments of
causality. Poster
session presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making's
27th
Conference, Houston,
TX.
(c) Anderson, R.
B., Doherty, M. E., & Friedrich, J. (2005). Statistical/ecological
factors in the effects of sample size on
correlational inference. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the
Psychonomic Society.
(b)
Anderson, R.
B., Doherty, M. E., Berg, N. D., & Friedrich, J. C. (2005). Sample
size and
the detection of correlation—A signal detection account: Comment on
Kareev
(2000) and Juslin and Olsson (2005). Psychological
Review, 112, 268-279.
(a) Anderson, R. B. (2001). The
power law as an emergent property. Memory
& Cognition, 29, 1061-1068.
Current
Funding - National Science
Foundation Grant #0423825
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